How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.Previously: The Longform Guide to Bank Heists
“‘Why does my dad have duct tape by his pillow?’”
He’s spent decades dodging the law. He’s escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He’s given millions to the poor. The story of how Vassilis Paleokostas, Greece’s most wanted man, became a folk hero.
Why six people admitted roles in two murders they most likely didn’t commit.
The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.
How a man of little education and little means invented a simple machine that changed the lives of women in rural India.
With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.